The Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack recently opened its first dedicated Speed Shop in downtown Los Angeles.

Combining the old-time feel of traditional speed shops with the latest in performance products and accessories, the location is designed to serve southern California auto enthusiasts with all they need in performance for their rides, from muscle cars and hot rods to sport compacts and imports to trucks and off roaders.

To create this new Speed Shop, Pep Boys enhanced its larger-than-average store on Washington Boulevard in LA with performance-related products that can usually only be found online or at independent specialty shops.

Run by Speed Shop professionals who know their performance products, the location has top-notch items by expert brands like Edelbrock, K&N and Brembo, as well as:

• Chrome and fashion accessories and lighting;
• Off-road racing tires and wheels, plus a nitrogen filling station;
• Nitrous systems and a nitrous oxide filling station;
• Performance intake and exhaust systems;
• Performance ignition, fuel and internal engine parts.

The Speed Shop has its own real estate within the Washington Boulevard store, complete with a lounge area designed as a place for auto enthusiasts to meet, network and swap stories. It also features easy-to-navigate displays of hundreds of top-name performance products, a station for Internet access and classic speed shop neon and metal signs that advertise some of best featured brands.

As part of the Washington Boulevard Pep Boys, the Speed Shop also gives customers the ability to have nearly all of their high-performance parts installed professionally on site in one of the location’s 22 service bays. 

“We are thrilled to open our first Speed Shop, as this extension of our business is a natural fit for Pep Boys,” says Pep Boys’ Senior Vice President of Merchandising and Marketing Scott Webb. “There is a high demand for specialty performance products, and we are excited to combine our retail automotive knowledge with our service expertise to make this Speed Shop a truly one-stop-shop for our enthusiast customers.”

Customers will be invited to check out all the Speed Shop has to offer during its official grand opening celebration on May 30 and 31. Custom cars will be on display, performance vendors will be on hand to show their products and food and entertainment will be available. Gale Banks, president and CEO of Banks Power, a leading distributor of diesel and gas performance products, and Meguiar’s CEO and Car Crazy TV host Barry Meguiar will help commemorate the event.

The Pep Boys Speed Shop is located at 1200 West Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles.